Miscellaneous flex stuff. The items which have been tested with flex 2.5 are:
- texinfo/, a subdirectory containing a "texinfo" version of flex(1)
and the corresponding "info" files (contributed by Francois Pinard).
- VMS/, a subdirectory containing makefiles, configuration files,
run-time support, and installation notes for building flex 2.5
on VMS (contributed by Pat Rankin).
- Borland/ - makefile and config.h for Borland 4.02 compiler
(contributed by Terrence O Kane, who notes that no source
code changes were necessary).
- NT/ - Makefile and config.h for NT, contributed by Stan Adermann.
- OS2/ - Makefile and config.h for building flex under OS/2,
contributed by Kai Uwe Rommel.
- Amiga/: notes on building flex for the Amiga, contributed
by Andreas Scherer.
- parse.c, parse.h - output of running yacc (byacc, actually)
on parse.y. If your system doesn't have a flavor of yacc available,
copy these into the main flex source directory instead.
- flex.man - preformatted version of flex man page
The following have been tested using flex 2.4:
- debflex.awk, an awk script for anotating flex debug output.
It presently only works with gawk and mawk, not with "old"
or "new" awk.
- NeXT: ProjectBuilder.app support for use in the NeXT world.
- Notes on building flex for the Macintosh using Think-C,
in the Macintosh/ subdirectory.
- testxxLexer.l, a sample C++ program that uses flex's scanner
class option ("-+").
- fastwc/, a subdirectory containing examples of how to use flex
to write progressively higher-performance versions of the Unix
"wc" utility. This certainly should work with 2.5, but hasn't
been tested.
- Borland.old/: notes on building flex 2.4 for Borland C++ 3.1
on MS-DOS. These shouldn't be needed for flex 2.5. Included
only in case you encounter unanticipated difficulties.
- EBCDIC: contact information for building flex for EBCDIC.
The following are all out-of-date with respect to flex release 2.4 (and
in general up-to-date for flex 2.3):
- Atari/Atari.patches, patches for porting flex to the Atari and
to Minix.
- A number of notes and Makefiles for compiling flex under MS-DOS,
in the MSDOS/ subdirectory.
- Notes on building flex for MVS, in the MVS/ subdirectory.
If any of this is out-of-date and can be deleted, please let me know.
And the following is included for compatibility with some broken versions
of bison:
- alloca.c, a public-domain, mostly-portable version of the
alloca() routine (used by bison's parsers) written by D. A. Gwyn.
Many thanks to those who contributed these files. Updated versions will
be appreciated!
